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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.
Catharsis
Folklore
Tone
Recognition
2. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.
Figurative Language
Alliteration
Flashback
Characterization
3. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.
Free Verse
Author's Purpose
Motif
Foreshadowing
4. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.
1st Person
Character
Spondee
Situational Irony
5. The time and place of a story or play.
Free Verse
Internal Conflict
Complication
Setting
6. A four line stanza in a poem.
Stereotype
Catharsis
Sestina
Quatrain
7. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.
Trochee
Apostrophe
Foot
Catharsis
8. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.
Complication
3rd Person (Limited)
Rising Action
Suspense
9. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.
Legend
Scenes
Analogy
Onomatopoeia
10. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.
Dialogue
Allegory
Literal Language
Convention
11. A short saying with a moral.
Rhythm
Foil
Repetition
Aphorism
12. The series of events that make up a story or drama.
Plot
Understatement
Point of View
External Conflict
13. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.
Image
Exposition
Characterization
Oxymoron
14. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.
Narrator
Legend
Literal Language
Convention
15. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.
Dialect
Parable
Ballad
Motif
16. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.
Rising Action
Villanelle
Analogy
Irony
17. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.
Tone
Repetition
Myth
Denotation
18. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.
Imagery
Aubade
Tercet
Parable
19. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.
Oxymoron
Audience
Sestet
Literal Language
20. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.
3rd Person (Limited)
Couplet
Syntax
Act
21. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.
Suspense
Foot
Persona
Convention
22. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.
Foreshadowing
Anapest
Understatement
Nonfiction
23. What a story or play is about.
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Synecdoche
Subject
Epiphany
24. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.
Epic
Analogy
Connotation
Foreshadowing
25. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.
Caesura
Satire
Epigram
Blank Verse
26. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.
Dramatic Irony
Caesura
Allegory
Character
27. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.
Anapest
Narrative Poem
Epiphany
Reversal
28. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.
Metonymy
Symbolism
Tone
1st Person
29. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.
Foreshadowing
Ode
Recognition
Metonymy
30. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.
Foreshadowing
Anapest
Nonfiction
Scenes
31. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.
Voice
Dialect
Satire
Diction
32. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.
Folklore
Alliteration
Octave
Repetition
33. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.
Structure
Stanza
Oxymoron
Caesura
34. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.
Act
Dramatic Irony
Literal Language
Connotation
35. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.
Recognition
Symbolism
Climax
Personification
36. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.
Myth
Situational Irony
Pyrrhic
Simile
37. The dictionary meaning of a word.
Denotation
Verbal Irony
Diction
Parallelism
38. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.
Personification
Conceit
Spondee
Parallelism
39. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.
Flashback
Stereotype
Suspense
Figurative Language
40. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.
Folklore
Rhythm
Solioquy
Dialect
41. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.
Subplot
Internal Conflict
3rd Person (Limited)
Villanelle
42. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.
Dialogue
Analogy
Elegy
Figurative Language
43. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.
Symbol
Symbolism
Apostrophe
Hyperbole
44. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.
Motif
Falling Action
Solioquy
Parody
45. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.
Structure
Sonnet
Rhyme
Foil
46. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.
Epic
Alliteration
Octave
Iamb
47. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.
Situational Irony
Oxymoron
Scenes
Dialogue
48. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.
Octave
Stanza
Myth
Lyric Poem
49. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.
Conflict
Metonymy
1st Person
Paradox
50. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.
Elegy
Oxymoron
Synecdoche
Sonnet